Hereford sprints past Caprock, 34-17

Posted: Saturday, October 19, 2002

An upset bid by Caprock fell by the wayside Friday night - and the reason was Hereford's Jorge Gonzales.

Gonzales was a force of one as he rushed for 317 yards on 21 carries and scored three long-distance touchdowns on runs of 63, 77 and 90 yards to lead the Whitefaces to a 34-17 win over the Longhorns in a District 3-4A game at Dick Bivins Stadium.

In all, Gonzales scored four touchdowns and was a big-play thorn in Caprock's side. He accounted for 317 of Hereford's 436 yards of total offense.

Caprock, winless at 0-7 and 0-3, held leads of 7-0 and 10-8 in the first half. The Longhorns' John Hassler scored on a 28-yard run to open the scoring. After the first of Gonzales' four touchdowns, this a 63-yard gallop tied the game at 7-7, Daniel Velasco gave Caprock a 10-7 lead.

But Gonzales' 77-yard run in the second quarter gave the Herd a 14-10 halftime lead. The Whitefaces (3-5 and 2-2) opened the second half with a pair of touchdowns on Gonzales' 90-yard backbreaker and a short 2-yard run by Ryan Artho to give Hereford a 27-10 lead.

Caprock, which scored more points in this game than in the 15 the Longhorns had totaled all season, did answer with a 22-yard scoring pass from Eric Rodriguez to Derick Heredia to narrow the deficit to 27-17.

But the last of Gonzales' touchdowns in the fourth quarter made the score final at 34-17.

For Caprock, Tanner Painter had 54 yards on 12 carries, while Hassler had 66 yards on nine attempts.

Hereford 7 7 13 7 - 34

Caprock 10 0 7 0 - 17

C-Josh Hassler 28 run (Daniel Velasco kick)

H-Jorge Gonzales 63 run (Tim Schlabs kick)

C-Velasco 29 FG

H-Gonzales 77 run (Schlabs kick)

H-Gonzales 90 run (Schlabs kick)

H-Ryan Artho 2 run (kick failed)

C-Derick Heredia 22 pass from Eric Rodriguez (Velasco kick)

H-Gonzales 5 run (Schlabs kick)

Hereford Caprock

First Downs 13 11

Yards Rushing 394 118

Yards Passing 42 80

Total Yards Gained 436 198

Comp-Att-Int 4-9-0 7-16-1

Punts-Avg 2-42 5-33

Fumbles-Lost 2-0 2-0

Penalties-Yards 10-70 3-45

Perryton 45

Tulia 7

TULIA- Perryton dominated Tulia with its ground game Friday night, then Brad Kyle added the exclamation point with a 53-yard field goal as the Rangers rushed for 340 yards in a 45-7 win in District 5-3A play.

Josh Wade rushed for 103 yards on four carries, including a 57-yard score in the win for the Rangers, who move to 6-1 overall and 2-0 in district.

Josh Garza and Terrance Powell each rushed for 54 yards in the loss for Tulia. The Hornets are 1-6 on the season and 0-2 in district.

Caleb Campbell got the Rangers offense started through the air with a 9-yard pass to Reese Criswell for a touchdown. Campbell also had a 66-yard run as the Rangers jumped out to a 21-0 lead in the first quarter.

Perryton's offense wasn't through, adding three more touchdowns before the half on a 20-yard run by Keith Potts, Wade's run of 57 yards, and a 16-yard scoring rush by Austin Johnson before Kyle booted the 53-yarder to close the scoring for the half with Perryton leading 45-7.

Garza connected with Harris Gore for the lone Hornet score, a 21-yard pass in the fourth quarter.

Perryton 21 24 0 0 - 45

Tulia 0 0 0 7 - 7

P-Reese Criswell 9 pass from Caleb Campbell (Brad Kyle kick)

P-Campbell 66 run (Kyle kick)

P-Matt Francis 46 run (Kyle kick)

P-Keith Potts 20 run (Kyle kick)

P-Jake Wade 57 run (Kyle kick)

P-Austin Johnson 16 run (Kyle kick)

P-Kyle 53 FG

T-Harris Gore 21 pass from Josh Garza (Garza kick)

Perryton Tulia

First Downs 16 10

Yards Rushing 35-340 39-93

Yards Passing 19 48

Total Yards Gained 359 141

Comp-Att-Int 2-3-0 4-13-0

Punts-Avg 1-42 6-26.7

Fumbles-Lost 1-1 1-1

Penalties-Yards 4-30 7-55

Wheeler 35

Shamrock 7

SHAMROCK- Wheeler followed a 121 yard effort from James Chapman to a 35-7 win over Shamrock in District 3-1A action.

Wheeler stayed perfect in district play at 2-0 and advanced its overall record to 3-4 win the victory, while Shamrock fell to 0-2 in district and 2-5 on the season with the loss.

The Irish turned the ball over three times, throwing one interception and losing two fumbles and were penalized 11 times for 80 yards.

Chapman got the Mustangs an early lead with a 15 yard touchdown run, a lead that was extended to 21-0 by halftime as Josh Miller scored on rushes of 10 and five yards.

Shamrock put up its lone points of the contest on a one yard run by Trae Sweatt in the third quarter that cut the lead to 21-7. Chris Gallager answered the Irish score with a six yard run of his own before Chapman scored his final touchdown of the contest in the fourth quarter.